Throughout my career, working as a freelancer, working with companies as contractor, as well as being permanently employed on payroll, I have learned one thing: To be successful, a business needs instant support and timely resolutions of any web development issues as well as a helping hand that can look into improving their existing website and works towards their business interests. Initial development itself can be time consuming that may make company to skip the quality scope of the code being developed and rush into functionality, but with time, this poorly written is required to be re-done. Also, finding top programmers with best of the best industry experience is tough but possible and you as a company need to be focused on quality vs quantity.
There were websites that went down every now and then, or loaded extremely slow under heavy load and most of the companies always ended up in upgrading their server to a better one. By working as a programmer in Canada, I have helped many clients to debug and fix programming codes and logic’s that were coded as disasters and did not allow normal online business operations. Using my experience, I have always been able to help such client to reduce their server load by 10x-100x which involved optimizing servers, improving security, adding content caching techniques, software upgrade, debugging extreme cpu/memory usage by scripts / programs, optimizing SQL queries to reduce load and more. The list is endless but there are the major ones that have always helped and are the ones that are skipped by regular programmers with either skillset issue or due to rush work delivery.